Example sentences of "[to-vb] their first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Club officials spent half an hour arguing over who had the right to wear their first strip . |
| 2 | In the country as a whole a staggering two-thirds of black babies are born to unmarried mothers ; 43% of black children are , by government criteria , born poor ; many do not live to see their first birthday . |
| 3 | They were from Orpington , and who had travelled from Devon to attend their first QT day . |
| 4 | They need to build a brick wall if they 're to claim their first win of the new year . |
| 5 | But win Norwich did and they have since gone on to preserve their First Division lives and reach the FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 6 | According to a spokesman for the Birmingham Midshires building society , which still provides finance for self-build schemes , people are now encouraged to sell their first homes before they start building a new one . |
| 7 | Motherwell took 27 minutes to create their first chance when Chris McCart carved out an opening for Joe McLeod , but the striker hesitated long enough to allow Brian Irvine to block the effort . |
| 8 | They also have the occasional darker overtones , and it is astonishing with such colourful , approachable music that it has taken so long for four of the overtures here to receive their first recordings . |
| 9 | The UK 's largest friendly society , Family Assurance , has joined forces with the medical group Private Patients Plan ( PPP ) to make it easier for young people to buy their first home , with a policy called Generation Builder . |
| 10 | The 1983 budget increased the ceiling from £25,000 to £30,000 , on the grounds that the lower limit was ‘ beginning to hinder a growing number of families who want to buy their first home , or to move ’ ( Hansard , 15 March 1983 , cols 145–6 ) . |
| 11 | THE SEX PISTOLS are to play their first reunion show in the UK on a major outdoor site next year . |
| 12 | In fact , a lot of bands starting out these days have to pay to play their first gigs . |
| 13 | Su Ragazzi need take only one set from the match to win their first title . |
| 14 | Yet the evidence from their earliest word uses , their requests for the names of things , and their repairs to their own utterances , all indicate that they opt for Conventionality as they begin to use their first language . |
| 15 | Subjects generally found the judgment tasks relatively easy to perform and were able to give their first rating immediately upon hearing the tone in almost all cases . |
| 16 | Mr Maginnis 's 12 years as a councillor ended when he advised voters to give their first preferences to his two party colleagues . |
| 17 | Supporters in the west were asked to give their first preference to Harry West and their second to John Taylor ; those in the east , vice versa . |
| 18 | But as shown in Fig.3 b for the sCD2 and CD4(D1D2) structures superimposed with respect to their second domains , a tilt of some 45° from this rod axis is required to superimpose their first domains . |
| 19 | Perhaps the last word should be left to the acerbic ‘ DS ’ in the TLS : ‘ The desperation of this roster — some of the writers have yet to publish their first novels — is self-evident . |
| 20 | Sri Lanka ended up needing 140 to record their first Test win over England and only their fourth success in 43 Tests since they joined the big league in 1982 . |
| 21 | For Celtic , who have still to record their first home league win of the season , manager Liam Brady was disappointed , saying yesterday 's performance ‘ was not up to our recent standard . ’ |
| 22 | For Celtic , who have still to record their first home league win of the season , manager Liam Brady was disappointed , saying yesterday 's performance ‘ was not up to our recent standard . ’ |
| 23 | They should be able to record their first thoughts , capture immediate responses and collect and organise ideas so that they are available for reflection . |
| 24 | That it took Hibs 37 minutes to record their first shot at Ally Maxwell vouches for the minuscule depth of their ambition and explains why they were , in the end , beaten hollow . |
| 25 | FOUR goals from David Flood helped Essendon to record their first win of the season in the Australian Football League as they beat Footscray 91-69 at the Western Oval , writes John Jelley . |
| 26 | This later took the form of a public advertisement in which UUUC supporters were urged to distribute their first preferences evenly as between five candidates on a geographical basis according to the polling stations at which they voted . |
| 27 | In this case , it is not unusual for them to decide to get another dog to keep their first dog company , and this is where the problems can arise — especially if the second dog is younger , or of a more submissive character . |
| 28 | FOOD giants Sainsbury 's says it is getting widespread support for its plans to build their first store in Gwynedd . |
| 29 | But the giant Czech goalkeeper is n't worried by the pressures of playing in front of a 30,000 crowd and a TV audience of two million as Kevin Keegan 's players bid to stretch their First Division lead to at least 10 points . |
| 30 | Bath had used a variation of this move to score their first try . |